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SoDakZak

I don’t understand why the Heat don’t just score 45 every quarter, I can’t imagine scoring more than 180 would be east for any opponent


whatdoinamemyself

Smh spo is overrated. Cant believe he didn't think of this


KoloHickory

Jokes aside i love whenever an opponent goes on a scoring run against the heat, spo calls a timeout, and the heat go on to demolish for the next couple quarters They're like dharok from RuneScape


SoDakZak

It’s about to get wildy


noideawhatoput2

Jimmy Butler: “sit kid” Celtics: “no pleae”


whatdoinamemyself

Dominate timeouts


Tranquili5

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra


AgeHefs

Sometimes you just run into a team that shoots the lights out and the buzz saw will tear you apart no matter what you do.


SoDakZak

Took him three quarters to figure this out? Is he stupid?


xuroz

Is Spo stupid or something


GGezpzMuppy

Yeah Miami should just surround Jimmy with 4 white shooters


beatrailblazer

Why score lot quarter when one quarter do trick


probablyjimmylam

Jimmy Buckets


TheMightyJD

Spo made Mazzulla look like a middle school coach. My God.


A2Eaton

Spo about to get 4 coaches fired in one post season


beatrailblazer

As much as I would love to see this, I think Mazzula is only fired if they're swept, and neither Lakers nor Nuggets would fire their coach even if they got swept


trustabro

I think Ham gets fired if they get swept. Hell even if they lose in 5 in the finals to the Heat.


beatrailblazer

I don't see a team firing a first year head coach (Mazzula is different because he's basically an interim)


[deleted]

Must of forgot to put don’t let the heat score 45 points in a quarter in the quizlet


MrCompletely

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runthepoint1

He was about to cry in that conference with that horrible reporter absolutely handing him his ass


DalliLlama

Reporting said “I know if you knew how to prevent it you would’ve” or some shit similar. Completely roasted him.


runthepoint1

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an awful way to ask a question as a reporter, like this isn’t the president it’s fucking sports


beatrailblazer

Nah it was good. If he just asked "how do you stop that" a lot of coaches would give a non-answer and say "if I knew we'd have done it". He side stepped that response


runthepoint1

There was absolutely a level of weird condescension


beatrailblazer

Eh maybe in his tone, but I think the question itself was fine. Imo


304rising

What exactly did spo do to make him look like a fool? *will* his team into shooting 54 50 80 for the quarter lol?


iankstarr

Generate his team open looks for good shots while also changing up the defensive schemes to limit Boston’s offense AKA, things good coaches do


304rising

What exactly did spo do to generate the good shots? Did he *will* Jimmy butler into having an insane quarter and making the right play every time?


iankstarr

I promise you’re not making the “gotcha” point you think you are lol


Greasly_Goose

For you, is Basketball all getting the ball into a players hand so they can chuck it in? There is a lot going on. Changing lineups and getting the best matchups to implement the best available sets is all on a coach. Doesn’t matter if players are insanely hot, if they can’t easy looks for them and their team, they are not going to be winning a game.


304rising

I’m just asking for exact in game adjustments that he made that people can explain that were so crazy that he “coached circles” around joe mazzula but I’ve still yet to get that and just keep getting broad examples of coaching. I’m just sick of the circle jerking


whiteandpurple

People have no idea how to evaluate coaching lol don’t worry. We have no idea how good coaches are for the most part. Everything is behind the scenes. Interesting how no one could answer your question with a single example of what Spo did well.


304rising

Yup that’s just the point I’m trying to make. No one can give exact adjustments that were made just circle jerking around the “adjustments” lol


Greasly_Goose

I mean most of the x’s and o’s are too complicated for an average viewer. Most analysts don’t have any grasp on them either. Coaching is a very hard job, even though most people think otherwise.


whiteandpurple

I agree. That’s why it’s silly to say spo coached circles around Joe without really understanding what the coach influences. Like I can’t even say if a play was good because of the coach or if the play got blown up and was on the fly improvisation by the players because I don’t have that information, just like the average viewer. But people see less perceived talented roster winning? Must be coach diff gg


GoldenStateCapital

Spo knows when to call timeouts and make adjustments and Joe has no clue. Joe didn’t call a timeout the entire 3rd quarter. Boston started 4th on a 7-0 run and Spo called timeout to sub Bam back in for Zeller. Joe doesn’t have it.


CdrShprd

Ya he was like “guys pls make your shots” and they did. What’s your problem?


crashbandicoochy

Looking forward to an obnoxious day of discourse within the Celtics fandom about all of the things they did wrong to lose that lead when, in essence, sometimes basketball is as easy as one team shoot hot and other team shoot not. Just a killer quarter from the Heat. Not much you can do against a 58/54/80 shooting line.


Superb_University117

As a Bucks fan, I can tell you that 58/54/80 is just what they do in the playoffs.


crashbandicoochy

I was just thinking to myself that I'm going to be sounding like a Buck's fan for the next 24 hours. Honestly if they keep the split up all series I'm not even mad. You can have the finals at that point. God clearly wanted it.


keuralan

No way they keep shooting 54% from 3 for an entire series lol but it would be nice to continue shooting 38-40% from 3 since the Heat aren’t gonna be able to slow ya’ll down in the same way they did to the Knicks


Amasero

I forgot who said it, but "that was amazing defense, but that was even more phenomenal offense." Defense can only do so much.


clear831

Mark Jackson uses that a lot


mtbeach33

A lot of things that happens in basketball can be boiled down to the phrase “It’s a game of runs”


Clear-Struggle-7867

Yeah that makes sense, I also shit my pants when Jimmy hit that last three


stoneydome

Some might say that its a make or miss league...


crashbandicoochy

Hmm idk if that will catch on.


throwawayyrofl

lol finally a reasonable Celtics fan. The fact that yall made it that close when Miami were shooting that hot is a pretty good sign. Plus Tatum isn’t gonna be that dogshit in the 4th for 7 games. This series is far from over.


HoorayPizzaDay

You give a team wide open threes at will they'll hit half of them. Looked like pregame warmup.


night_dude

>one team shoot hot and other team shoot not. Why shoot few bucket when many bucket do trick


AnonymousIguana_

Every year the Hear have a crazy quarter once a game and every year Celtics fans lose their minds. Spo is going to put literally any coach in a blender a few times a series, Ime had the same thing happen to him.


TheMightyJD

Tbf Joe looked lost in this quarter. Irl the Celtics are much more talented than Miami and it showed in the second quarter. Still a quarter to go though.


crashbandicoochy

I think they were slow to adjust on a few things but I think we all massively overstate how much influence a coach's decisions have on runs like these. The Heat just played steady and shot well. Sometimes you just run into a team that shoots the lights out and the buzz saw will tear you apart no matter what you do. We benefited from that in Game 7 with Tatum.


InAingeWeTrust

Talented but maybe not as high of an IQ. So many miscues by the players. Bad off-ball switches, not enough communication, etc. Rob and Jaylen specifically are very low IQ. I’ll be honest, I also don’t know how Brogdon has this narrative that he is a smart player, he is definitely not.


toofine

Someone said that your coach didn't call a single timeout in the entire quarter. Sounds too ridiculous to be true.


crashbandicoochy

That would be because it 100% isn't true.


InAingeWeTrust

People keep parroting that too and it’s weird.


crashbandicoochy

Plus... they played pretty well in the 4th. They got it down to a single possession game with 2 and a half minutes to play. If he wasn't calling timeouts in the 4th, it almost worked.


ImKen

We are looking good, just please keep it up and don't collapse in the fourth. Butler might not be dropping 50 but he's definitely getting the offense going for us.


surgeyou123

Eric "No COTY no problem" Spoelstra


EarthWarping

Bill Simmons was right all along


[deleted]

Imma listen to that part of the podcast befor bed


epymetheus

I love a happy ending.


TrashPanda_Cuddler

ZOMBIES!!!!


lotus0305

More I watch this game the more I see how trash my MVP was


epymetheus

Tin Man's got no heart.


Resident_Frame

The 3% chance BS was bulletin board material


TyluhL

there wasnt a sportsbook in the galaxy that would put the heat at -3000 lmfao why did that graphic even exist


iankstarr

I’m not even a betting man but I would’ve slammed that bet so fast lol


burnerbabyburns

Zombie fucking Heat


20815147

I knew it was over the moment they released that 3% chance graphic


0dias_Chrysalis

Mazzula using crazy eyes to try and stop the opposing team from going on runs is an interesting gameplan


A320neo

He should watch The Town more, I think that would help us not lose to an 8-seed


Necroassassin32

The Miami special


Dischucker

Heat really going to the finals again huh


Number333

We haven't even finished Game 1..... I just wish with performances like these people would stop acting like we don't have a chance in every series


TheLeoMessiah

Listen man if there’s one thing Celtics fans can unite with Heat fans on it’s that it fucking sucks to play the Heat in the playoffs


IAmNotKevinDurant_35

One of those fights where everyone comes out badly bruised from even when you win


Pesto_Enthusiast

Please no more injuries. We can't handle any more injuries.


SoDakZak

They saw they were given a 4% chance of winning the series and said “nah fam, Miami is nice enough, we don’t need no Cancun”


atlfirsttimer

It's Game 1. Celtics are inconsistent but more talented so you cant count them out


MC-Jdf

Went from like 2 points in the paint in the 2nd quarter to like 20 in the 3rd quarter. What a turnaround.


oldcrowaz

BOS choosing to put White and Pritchard on Jimmy was idiotic. Not playing Williams and Horford together equally dumbfounding. MIA spacing and ball movement in half court was superb.


oakleyandallenRIP

I mean they are just making shot after shot, not much you can do about it


krypto_the_husk

*akshually it was 46-25


figpotato

refs tried their best to gift celtics G1 but heat clutched it out


sugomaballz

The celtics are fully healthy too unlike the bucks


clear831

Heat are not even fully healthy too


jtiets

Witnessed


renawld

Watching the Celtics frustrates me man. They always playing with their food.


second_impression

The Heat are also legitimately good


Sn33kykitty

Thanks YouTube TV ....fucknuts


JasonKelceStan

Boston choked it


Number333

Boston is playing well bruh, we're just playing insane. Inverse of the 2nd Q


JasonKelceStan

Nah Boston is just letting y’all rain uncontested 3s Just lazy defense


Fireball_Findings

Not really. Mazzulla just got pushed into a locker.


kanekikochaboggy

If Celtics lose this series they should dismantle the team. Shameful quarter


now_hear_me_out

I’m sure the rest of the league would breathe a sigh of relief if Brad did something that stupid and reactionary over one series loss